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WATGH PROTEGTOR.

Patented Feb. 8, 1887.

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MARCUS MAR-X, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

WATCH-PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,39 9, dated February 8, 1887.

Application filed June 30,1886. Serial No. 206,686. (No mbam To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MARCUS MARX, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oombined Watch Protectors and Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

Myinvention consists in the combination of a watch-protector, substantially as hereinafter described, with a hook or catch or loop to which the ring of the watch is secured. The

. said protector contains a case or head from which spikes or points are caused to protrude and to engage with the inner part of the watchpocket whenever strain is brought upon the watch-chain to which said protector is fastened. Such aprotector is old and well known, and appears in United States Letters Patent to Morris Pollak, No. 93,344, dated August 3, 1869. As hitherto constructed, and as set forth in said patent, the said protector is not provided with any hook or catch for the attachment of the watch, but simply with rings at each end, so that while the chain is fastened to one ring :an additional hook, catch, or link is necessary to secure the watch to the opposite rlng.

I have found that anything which increases the distance between the protector and the watch-ring is a disadvantage, because it may so happen, especially when the watch is carelessly placed in the pocket. that the protector does not enter the pocket-{but remains outside thereof. The protector in such case obviously ceases to be of utility.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is avertical section of my device with the points retracted. Fig. 2 is a partial vertical section with the points protruded on the linear or of Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3 y of Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

The protector consists of the hollow metal head or case A. Through an opening in one end of said case enters the rod B. At its lower end said rod carries arms 0, in which are pivoted the pointsD, which pass through apertures in said case, as shown. Around the rod B is a coiled spring,E. As shownin Fig. 1, when said rodB is pushed inward, as by the expansion of the spring E, the points D are retracted. This is the normal position of the parts. When,,however, said rod B is drawn outward as is the ease, for example, when the watch-chain attached to the ring F is pulledthen the points D protrude, as shown in Fig. 2, and engage with the lining of the pocket, for example, which contains the protector.

On the lower part of the case A, I form a projection, G, which may be integral witht-he material of the case or attached thereto in any suitable way. Said projection supports the fixed hook H and also the pivoted portionI of said hook. An arm, K, of said pivoted portion I bears upon the coiled spring J ,arranged, as shown, in a recess or hollow of said projection G.

I do notlimit myself to a catch-hook, as above described, rigidly attached to the case A, because I may form the attachment by a swivel or other connection.

The combination of the case A, rod B, arms 0, points D, spring E, ring F, projection G, hook H I, and spring J, substantially as described.

MARCUS MARX.

Witnesses:

DANIEL J. Aneusrnwn, J AMES MORRIS. 

